You might be irritated by the Lincoln Project guys. You might think Stuart Stevens can go jump off a bridge. Fine. But ask yourself: why is this ex-Republican speaking truths about the party that *national Dems refuse to articulate*? motherjones.com/politics/2020/…
“The GOP has been a cartel,” Stevens said excitedly. “And no one asks a cartel, ‘What’s your ideological purpose?’ You don’t ask OPEC, ‘What’s your ideology?’ You don’t ask a drug gang, ‘What’s your program?’ The Republicans exist for the pursuit of power for no purpose.”
👆 This is true AF. Has any prominent national D said as much?
This was written by Lionel Trilling in ***1950***. Has anything changed? 
I maintain that "irritable mental gestures that seek to resemble ideas" is the most accurate, savage burn against US conservatism on record. Are there other contenders?
